Product Details

• Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jack Warden, Mariangela Melato, Richard Kiel, Fred Gwynne
• Directors: Andrew Bergman
• Writers: Andrew Bergman
• Producers: Michael Haley, Mike Lobell, Raymond Hartwick
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: September 1, 1998
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300269205
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,620 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

A college professor is abruptly abducted by a loan shark and ordered to take over his father's failing dress business. After a zany accident, he perfects a new peekaboo design for denim blue jeans.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pauly Walnuts, Herman Munster, Jaws...How Can You Beat It, January 22, 2010

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David Baldwin (Philadelphia,PA USA) - See all my reviews
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Director writer Andrew Bergman proved with his contribution to the "Blazing Saddles" script and his masterwork, "The Freshman" that he is capable of real comic inspiration. "So Fine" doesn't reach those lofty heights but there are moments of real hilarity here. The film can best be described as a homage to the screwball comedies of the Thirties and Forties spiked with off-color humor. If you can say anything it's that Bergman was prescient in foreseeing the see-through jeans fad. Think low riders and thong underwear. Ryan O'Neal, a terrific light comedian as proven in "What's Up Doc" and "Paper Moon", gracefully delegates most of the spotlight to his co-stars. Jack Warden is a delight as O'Neal's garment peddler father whose desperation in saving his failing business forces him to push his rags in Bloomingdales without their permission. Mariangelo Melato is hilarious as the sexpot mobster wife whose passions run so high that she wants to copulate with O'Neal while the mobster's still in the bed. The biggest surprise is Richard Kiel, better known as Jaws from the Bond films, who gets to poke fun at his image. Highlights are Kiel sauntering through a campus cafeteria while the Four Seasons "Walk Like a Man" streams from the soundtrack and his singing Italian opera in "Othello" makeup. My fave sight gag was Kiel frightening a filling station guard dog that the poor animal's fur went from black to white. "So Fine" falls short of classic but it definitely constitutes as a sleeper.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funniest movie I ever saw, February 3, 2000

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J. Fredricks "hiphoptwo" (Clemmons, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: So Fine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is the funniest movie ever made. Ryan O'Neal and Jack Warden's finest work. Richard Kiehl (Jaws) is a hoot as Othello. I like to surprise my friends with this as NO ONE has ever seen it. This is one of those gems that did not get promoted and died at the box office. Don't miss it!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the funniest movies of all time, November 1, 2000

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sparkyk "sparkyk" (Los Angeles, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: So Fine [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is a true gem. Written and directed by the fabulously talented Andrew Bergman (writer-director of Fletch, The Freshman, Honeymoon in Vegas, writer of The In-Laws, co-writer of Blazing Saddles), it is wild, literate and hilarious. Wonderfully written, cast and staged, it contains side-splittingly insightful send-ups of provincial state college English departments (first-rate performance by Fred Gwynne as the pompous and pedantic head of the department, Chairman Lincoln), the garment business (one of Jack Warden's best performances as Jack Fine, the owner of a perennially struggling dress business, Fine Fashions), gangsters (Richard Kiel is hilarious as the monosyllabic Mr. Eddie), romantic entanglements (Ryan O'Neal as Bobby Fine, witless associate English professor at Chippenango State College (and son of Jack Fine) and the wonderful Mariangela Melato (Swept Away, Love and Anarchy) as Lira, Mr. Eddie's wife) and grand opera (an incredible climactic scene takes place during a performance of Verdi's Otello). Full of passionate humor, Bergman is audaciously funny; he has the nerve to have Warden, upset with his son Ryan O'Neal over his having become romantically involved with gangster Richard Kiel's wife, tell O'Neal, "You gotta leave the country! Israel! You can go to Israel! You got a cousin there." With a marvelous score by Ennio Morricone. I can't wait for a DVD of this masterpiece.